Fundamentals of Parallel Multicore Architecture

Chapter 5

Introduction to Memory Hierarchy Organization

Contents

5.1   Motivation for Memory Hierarchy

5.2   Basic Architectures ofa Cache

5.2.1   Placement Policy

5.2.2   Replacement Policy

5.2.3   Write Policy

5.2.4   Inclusion Policy on Multi-Level Caches

5.2.5   Unified/Split/Banked Cache Organization and Cache Pipelining

5.2.6   Cache Addressing and Translation Lookaside Buffer

5.2.7   Non-Blocking Cache

5.3   Cache Performance

5.3.1   The Power Law of Cache Misses

5.3.2   Stack Distance Profile

5.3.3   Cache Performance Metrics

5.4   Prefetching

5.4.1   Stride and Sequential Prefetching

5.4.2   Prefetching in MultiprocessorSystems

5.5   Cache Design in Multicore Architecture

5.6   Physical Cache Organization

5.6.1   United Cache Organization ...